james mantell
I am associate professor of psychology at St. Mary's College of Maryland. I teach courses about perception, cognition, research methods, statistics, writing, and more.
I direct the Vocal Perception Action Lab where my research students and I study the behaviors and psychological processes related to language and music.
You can learn more about my courses and my research by exploring the rest of the site. If you want to join the lab or ask for a letter of recommendation, please read information for students.
Contact me: jtmantell@smcm.edu
A note about office hours
Please visit on Friday, 8:00 – 10:00 am, or whenever my office door is open, to discuss anything you’d like. You may also send me an email to schedule an in-person or virtual meeting. Welcome!
Updates
1/2024 Welcome to the lab: directed research student Jonathan Parsons
11/2023 Rachel Thompson (class of '19) and I have published a paper in Musicae Scientiae. You can access our data on OSF.
8/2023 I began my appointment as department chair
7/2023 Aileen Bailey and I have been awarded an NSF grant for our project titled Developing Modernized Data Science Instruction in Psychology Curricula
4/2023 Collaborative Research students Carla Wilson and Isaac Baker presented our continuing research on absolute pitch encoding and perception of randomly ordered sound at the Psychology Department Research Symposium
12/2022 Directed Research students Carla Wilson, Meara Johnson, and James Atwell presented our research on absolute pitch memory and shuffled sound perception at this year's SMCM Psychology Department Annual Research Symposium
11/2022 Meara Johnson, James Atwell, and I presented a virtual poster at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society
2/2022 Rebecca Faubion-Trejo (class of '19) and I have published a paper in Music Perception. You can access our data on OSF.
1/2022 Welcome to the lab: Researchers Carla Wilson and Jordan Bailey are conducting music cognition research